Meet the first 2026 Zappy Award monthly winners: May 2026

The Zappy Awards, launched to recognize individuals innovatively using Zapier to solve workplace challenges, have announced their first winners, highlighting unique solutions by Rachael Silvano and Jeff Hirsch. Rachael, without a development background, created a gamification system for Articulate's E-Learning Heroes community, enabling a points economy that rewards peer contributions through a complex Zapier workflow connecting Airtable and their community platform. Meanwhile, Jeff Hirsch at Redis transformed Zapier from an underutilized tool into a well-governed enterprise solution, implementing SSO, SCIM, and user provisioning across teams, thereby facilitating centralized governance and encouraging organic adoption of AI automation ideas. The awards emphasize submissions that demonstrate specific problem-solving and innovation beyond expected job roles, with monthly winners announced through the summer and annual winners to be celebrated at ZapConnect 2026.

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